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The
Panel Play
Panel & Characters
The Claybill
The Text - introduction
Scene I
Scene II
Scene III
Scene IV
Scene V
Scene VI
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[Room completely dark. All
actors in place behind the Panel, except for Issy (in nymphet outfit) who is
perched on a high stool next to the Panel, and the Narrator (dressed as a
circus barker with hat and cane), who is in front of the Panel.]
Narrator:
[In style of a side-show barker]
Step right up! Step
right up Ladies and Gentlemen! See
the real, the genuine, the veritible, the un-cut, the one and only - Joyce's
Wake! Step right up! All the characters! All
the characters' characters! Cost
you only 6 cents (other shows are 5 cents but here you need your sixth
sense). Step right up! Hear the
lines, the real lines, the genuine lines - right from the book! Worth the extra cents 'cause we've got it all: a freak show:
a giant! a lady made out of water! the tatoo man - with novels writ on his
skin! a human egg! a mirror girl (who's the real one?) and girls, girls, girls - 29 dancing girls!
Step right up Ladies and Gentlemen! The show is about to begin:
Joyce's Wake! Finnegans Wake! Here Comes Everybody's Wake!
[sound
of a party with the song Finnegan's Wake playing in the background]
Anna Livia Plurabelle:
[Wailing loudly over the
background sounds]
Macool, Macool, orra whyi deed ye diie?
[other
sounds fade as thunder sound starts softly, continues during thunderword,
gets louder and then very loud after thunderword finishes and then stops
abruptly]
Tristan:
bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonn-
bronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawn-
skawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!
[all
actors' heads through the Panel; lights on]
Narrator:
Welcome, my friends - to
Joyce's Wake!
[end of Scene I]
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